Akousma Part III

Project named Coup de Cœur by Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète-Béziers, Montpellier, France.

After missing a long-awaited call, a woman wakes up alone in an empty space. Through gesture and sound, she engages in a strange ritual in the hope of finding an answer that will help her escape her haunting obsession. In the form of a somnambulistic closed-door drama, Akousma offers a glimpse into the mind of a body on the lookout, stuck between the world of the living and the world of the dead. This first short film by young visual artist Geoffrey Badel features choreographer Mathilde Monnier, giving ghosts the opportunity to return.

Filmed in the auditorium of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, the third and final part of Akousma is a short fiction film based on the artist’s book from this trilogy, transformed into a score performed by Mathilde Monnier. A contemporary dance choreographer and director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier for twenty years (1994-2014), she embodies the role of this character by reactivating through movement the different voices present in the book as well as her own ghostly memories.